Monday, July 26, 2010

My work consists to a large amount of drawings. For about ten years now, my works on paper have strictly been done in the same size portrait format (A4). Onto these sheets I place my single or group motifs.

I work almost exclusively with things I have actually seen - filtered through my kind of selective perception. What I show is actually a subjective essence of the perceived object. I do not invent forms, but sometimes reduce or exaggerate certain aspects of a thing, or I compare or contrast it with similar shapes. By doing this, already in the process of planning a drawing, several ways of interpretation open up and I try to keep them as open as possible. In the finished works, the motifs can never be fully finished; they remind of something familiar that can scarcely be summed up in words.

The drawings that satisfy me based on objects that are shown settled and unsettled at the same time. This balance between clarity and blur, certainty and uncertainty, interest me. In order to retain their ambivalence, my drawings have no titles."(Astrid Köppe)

About us

Lostgens established in early 2004 by a group of artists. Though situated in the bustling capital city, Lostgens has managed to take on a certain quietness and edginess that comes from being off the beaten track. This self-managed experimental space aims to encourage originality, creativity, individuality, as well as to promote contemporary arts. It provides an alternative space for budding innovative exhibitions and performances. Lostgens has entered a next phase of unique development and operation. What started as a small private group has now moved out into the public, Lostgens aims to weave itself into the multicultural artistic atmosphere. More than just a place that brings together artists, it also provides a platform for a dynamic growth of multi-layered artistic culture.

Why lostgens?

Hemingway once said, "Every generation has had any cause to feel lost past, and future. " Each generation must then use their cultural resistance to the dominant culture, values and then destroy the existing framework. Challenging young people to strive to mainstream culture seems to be every era of "renegade" one thing, because there are different background environment in positive and negative ways, it will create an alternative to mainstream single culture .